A hands-on guide to deploying applications in Rancher’s new Kubernetes environments

Over the last few months our team at Rancher Labs has been adding support for Kubernetes natively within Rancher. Our implementation of Kubernetes takes advantage of Rancher’s platform orchestration, simple UI, access control, networking and storage capabilities to deliver simple to deploy Kubernetes clusters for managing applications. In our February meetup we introduced this new support, and discussed how these Kubernetes environments compare with our native Docker environments and help you understand when and how each can be used to power your containers.

Our new support for Kubernetes will be available in Rancher in our next major release in March.

In this recording we demonstrated:

Deploying a Kubernetes Cluster within Rancher

Launching Kubernetes Pods and Replication Controllers

Leveraging Rancher services within Kubernetes

Understanding the differences between Kubernetes and native Docker environments

This hands-on guidebook provides a detailed introduction to using Kubernetes. It includes an overview of crucial Kubernetes concepts, guidance on deploying and scaling a multi-service containerized application, and on upgrading and monitoring with Kubernetes and Rancher.